Madrid Bombings Carry al-Qaida Hallmark

by Claude Salhani

WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) -- "It's a declaration of war against democracy,"
said Pat Cox, the president of the European Parliament, of Thursday's
attacks in Madrid. On that point there is no debate. What is debatable,
however, is who is responsible for the senseless slaughter of innocents.

While all fingers in Spain are pointing at the Basque separatist movement
ETA as the perpetrators of Thursday's atrocious train bombings that left
some 186 dead and 600 wounded, the attacks carry all the markings of
al-Qaida and its jihadi affiliates. . . .